Franklin Delano Roosevelt

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump engaged in a campaign of mutually-assured destruction, social media saw record new levels of schadenfreude.

Winning more than two elections was unthinkable. Then came FDR.

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President FDR heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle against polio transformed him into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.

The actual history of New Deal policies provides little evidence that it was a rollicking success.

Cliff Sloan’s new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?

In a city of ambitious influencers, a shadow cabinet hopes it can summon a new New Deal.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

While Herbert Hoover was deeply critical of his successor, he put aside his differences to ensure the peaceful and democratic transition of power.

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.

His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.

A network of "morale wardens" tracked down the latest scuttlebutt.

Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.

Despite a fractured party and health concerns, FDR capitalized on name recognition to win the 1932 presidential election.

When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad.